The Flower Machine – Through A London Window

Starting with their 2004 debut album “Chalk Dust Dream of the Tea Cozy Mitten Company,” The Flower Machine has been one of the longest-running yet most obscure bands in the Los Angeles psych scene. Led by Dutch-American singer and guitarist Peter Quinnell, the band has consistently focused on crafting dense, heavily-overdubbed psych-pop songs, delivered through an intermittent series of loud and chaotic performances over the years in the LA club scene. Strongly influenced by Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, The Outsiders, and Kevin Ayers, The Flower Machine’s idiosyncratic take on psychedelia was shaped during Peter’s formative years in Amsterdam, a city where the spirit of 1967 in many ways never ended. “One in a Million,” perhaps the most obscure item in the Pink Floyd cannon, makes its vinyl debut on the B-side. Surviving only on a murky audience tape from a gig in Copenhagen in September, 1967, the song is thought to be a joint composition between Syd Barrett and Roger Waters. It even may have been an early version of the rumored “She Was a Millionaire” single The Pink Floyd were working on to follow up “See Emily Play.”